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After assuming this more realistic and proactive mindset, she finds greater success enriching the lives of the people around her, finally achieving her desire to be a source of strength for others. After being saved from her lowest point, Shōko chooses to confront her negative feelings and starts accepting the value in her own life even with its imperfections.

It is through her growing friendship with Shōya that Shōko embraces more of herself and starts to express her emotions more openly, revealing moments of anger, sadness, and genuine happiness. This quality explains her sixth grade desire to be friends with the tactless but honest Shōya, and it is part of her reason for associating with Naoka Ueno in adulthood. However, she tends to lack confidence in her own judgments of social situations, which causes her to highly value others' honesty, even when that honesty is harsh. Contrary to most people's expectations, she is rather analytical and perceptive, and she is usually quick to discern the content and subtext of conversations even when they are not signed to her. Although her disability makes certain parts of her life difficult, Shōko never feels the need to be pitied or treated specially.īeing a visually focused person by necessity, Shōko has a fondness for visual metaphor and symbolism, as exemplified by her feelings toward her sixth grade notebook, her affection for Madagascar periwinkles in the language of flowers, and various other actions over the course of the story. She also expresses a caring and nurturing side, as seen when she tells Shōya that it makes her happy to give others what they need. However, these negative feelings are usually hidden beneath the more obvious positive parts of her personality.Īt her core, Shōko is a kind and compassionate person who is rather easygoing and she is shown to be very patient and forgiving, even to her former bully Shōya, whose friendship she earnestly accepts when years later he expresses regret at mistreating and failing to understand her. Due to her lack of confidence in her own perceptions and desire not to be a burden, she struggles with avoidant behaviors, which ultimately exacerbate her feelings of guilt and inadequacy. She is plagued by guilt over what she sees as her own role in the dysfunctional situations of her past, including both her school and family life, and she has developed a tendency to blame herself when things go wrong even when she alone is negatively affected. Her hope of making friends was symbolized to her by the communication notebook she brought to Takeuchi's class, and she temporarily gave up this wish after Shōya Ishida tossed this book into the school’s pond.Īfter facing isolation of both external and self-imposed varieties for many years of her life, Shōko has become a melancholic and self-loathing person in her late teens. However, due to difficulties in communication, she was often met with misunderstanding, disinterest, or bullying. Upon entering his third year of high school, Shouya meets Shouko again and apologizes for what happened six years ago.In her youth, Shōko had a strong desire to connect with people around her. He makes an effort to learn sign language so he can communicate with her more effectively in the future - if they ever reunite. In these years of isolation, Shouya realizes what he did to Shouko in the past was wrong. Eventually, Shouko transfers to another school and Shouya becomes ostracized by his former friends, leaving him completely alone until his third year of high school. Shouko endures extreme harassment and bullying from her classmates, including Shouya.

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Shouko’s classmates have never met a deaf person before, so they don’t know how to interact with her.

Shouko is a girl who is almost completely deaf, but because her mom doesn’t understand her struggles, she enrolls her daughter in “regular” schooling. If anything, Shouya's behavioral issues got worse and the homeroom teacher did very little to stop his attacks. That didn’t change when Shouko Nishimiya showed up. Shouya Ishida was a tough kid in sixth grade, always getting into trouble with his friends and causing a few issues for himself and his classmates.

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